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Betty works out at Jazzercise on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. She still has a beautiful singing voice and an inner beauty to match. ...

Expert tango dancers move with the music at Pampas Argentine Grill. STORY: CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER Is there a dance more...

Distinguished bass player Bert Turetsky delighted Jewish Festival jazz lovers. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER The 20th...

STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS You  have to love a city that in a few week's time offers vocal jazz with Manhattan Transfer in the historic Balboa Theatre and classics played with vintage instruments by Bach Collegium in the The art deco charms of the 1924 Balboa Theater are thanks to careful restoration. It is the grand dame of downtown, adjacent to Horton Plaza and the Lyceum. imposing venue of Balboa Park's History Center. Add a world-class Puerto Rican brother-sister chamber

Bruce Keller and his mother, Jean Keller, board a harbor cruise at Oceanside, where Jean taught Keller to paint as a lad. STORY By...

Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos plays magnificently as "La Trompeta" and band leader . -- Production photos by Daren Scott  By CHRISTENE...

This publicity photo shows Vereen's joy in life and his engaging personality. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER Ben...

Actor Ben Vereen is touring a fast-paced one man show which may appear in an expanded version down the road. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS...

Editor's Note: This story was written a few years before Meyers and Keller were married in a pop-up ceremony during a family reunion in her native state, Montana. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS: VINTAGE and BRUCE KELLER The famous photo taken on VJ Day at Times Square,1945, inspired the "Kiss" sculpture that inspired this column. Top photo: Bruce Keller and Christene Meyers on a date in San Diego. THIS VALENTINE'S  week, with "The Kiss" statue back in San Diego, I'm taki

If music be the food of love, play on!      Luckily for fans of early classical music, it's not too late to enjoy the brilliant...

Peny Jil Cosgriffe Hayes was a beautiful and talented sister who died 27 years ago this week.   REMEMBERING A LIFE WELL-LIVED:BLITHE,...

"Play Misty for Me" -- and she did!     Cookie joined a jazz quintet to add sizzle to a sultry summer night at the Cowboy Bar in...

STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS Theater in San Diego is as varied as the jewels in a royal crown, each one offering its own unique light and sparkle. In five years of reflecting on the gems here, I’ve never seen a “faux stone.”  The talent pool is large and varied, the fare is a lively mix of drama, musicals and new experimental work, and – this is a critical element – the actors, musicians and crew are passionate.  It shows. Sunday’s matinee of “Man of LaMancha” at Cygnet Th

STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTO By BRUCE KELLER It was not an AARP convention, but there were many grey heads and paunches aplenty at...